Rapid technological advances in genetics and genomics
hold promise for the diagnosis, treatment and even
prevention of common and rare diseases. Nevertheless,
they also raise concerns regarding their potential
impacts on health systems, which has led many
countries to reflect on the optimal models to coo...
An assessment of what is is known about problems related to expanding the uptake of hospital-based tobacco-use cessation supports, options for addressing these problems, and key implementation considerations. The evidence brief was an input to a stakeholder dialogue on the topic of expanding the uptake o...
There is an increasing focus on improving healthcare in order to ensure higher quality. Training programmes have been developed to teach health professionals and students formal quality improvement methods. This evidence scan explores the following questions: What types of training about formal quality i...
Dans le cadre du projet SURE, le Centre pour le Développement des Bonnes Pratiques en Santé
et la Direction des Ressources Humaines du Ministère de la Santé Publique ont organisé un
forum délibératif le 31 janvier 2012 à l’Hôtel Mérina de Yaoundé sur le thème « Maintenir la
présence des p...
Uganda’s maternal mortality has moderately declined from 670 per 100,000 live births in
1990 to 430 per 100,000 live births in 2008. This annual decline of 13 maternal deaths per
100,000 live births is unlikely to achieve the MDG target of 168 per 100,000 live birthsby
2015. The proportion of pregnant ...
This brief is a contribution to deliberations aiming at fostering the use of antenatal care (ANC)
services by pregnant women in order to reach the optimum recommended by WHO (e.g., four
prenatal visits, one per quarter including one just before delivery) within the framework of the
Campaign for the Accel...
The number of health workers in Mozambique is insufficient to enable the achievement of the
country‟s population health goals. This problem is compounded by the uneven distribution of
health care works by province and by area of residence, and by a weak and under-resourced
national health system which ...
En RCA, il est globalement ressorti des différents rapports de suivi des indicateurs
des OMD que les progrès sont les plus lents en ce qui concerne l’OMD1 (Eradiquer
l’extrême pauvreté et la faim), l´OMD 4 (Réduire la mortalité des enfants de moins de 5
ans), l’OMD 5 (Améliorer la santé ma...
Health costs are spiralling out of control all over the world in context of global financial crisis while some countries are still struggling to offer basic health services. The health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa is most often unfunded, including the health workforce, which represents the single largest...
A rare disease is a disease that occurs infrequently or rarely in the general population. In
order to be considered as rare, each specific disease cannot affect more than a limited
number of people out of the whole population, defined in Chile as 0.18 in 10,000 citizens
(Minister of Health draft of the l...